Actor
Keith David
252 movies as actor
Born Jun 4, 1956 (age 70)From Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USAAlso known as Keith David Williams, キース・デイヴィッド, کیت دیوید
Keith David Williams (born June 4, 1956) is an American actor. He is mostly known for his bass voice and screen presence in over 400 roles across film, stage, television, and interactive media.
He has starred in such films as The Thing (1982), Platoon (1986), They Live (1988), Dead Presidents(1995), Armageddon (1998), There's Something About Mary (1998), Requiem for a Dream (2000), Pitch Black (2000), Barbershop (2002), Crash (2004), The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), Cloud Atlas (2012), The Nice Guys (2016), Nope (2022), and American Fiction (2023). He starred as Elroy Patashnik in the sixth season of the NBC series Community (2015) and as Bishop James Greenleaf in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama Greenleaf (2016–2020).
His Emmy-winning voice acting career includes narrating Ken Burns films such as The War (2007) and Muhammad Ali (2021). In film, he has voiced Dr. Facilier in The Princess and the Frog (2009) and the Cat in Coraline (2009). On television, he portrayed Goliath in Gargoyles (1994–1997), Al Simmons / Spawn in Todd McFarlane's Spawn (1997–1999), The Flame King in Adventure Time (2012–2017), President Andre Curtis in Rick and Morty (2015–) and its upcoming spin-off Pre…
Known for
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2005 · Action, Comedy
Requiem for a Dream
2000 · Crime, Drama
Coraline
2009 · Animation, Family
The Nice Guys
2016 · Comedy, Crime
Armageddon
1998 · Action, Sci-Fi
The Thing
1982 · Horror, Mystery
Hercules
1997 · Animation, Family
Cloud Atlas
2012 · Drama, Sci-Fi
The Princess and the Frog
2009 · Animation, Romance
There's Something About Mary
1998 · Romance, Comedy
Platoon
1986 · Drama, War
Nope
2022 · Horror, Sci-Fi
Keith David movies
ATL 2: The Homecoming
John Garnett
The Price for Freedom
The Price for Freedom
Reverend J.W. Bruno
Dreams of the Moon
Upcoming
My New Friend Jim
My New Friend Jim
Jim Dandy
The Nutcase
The Nutcase
Upcoming
Bob's Best Friends
Cuddles (voice)
Captain Zero: The Movie
2028 · The Depression Demon (voice)
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
2026 · Narrator of Spider Video (voice)
The Thing Expanded
2026 · Self
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
2026 · Sosa
What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas
2025 · Self - Interviewee
The Gettysburg Address
2025 · Frederick Douglass (voice)
Hazbin Hotel: Live on Broadway
2025 · (voice) (uncredited)
Shelby Oaks
2025 · Morton Jacobson
Hazbin Hotel: Sing-Along
2025 · Husk (voice)
Finding Faith
2025 · Henry
Omniscient
2025 · Alistair
Captain Zero: Into the Abyss Part II
2025 · The Depression Demon (voice)
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler's Paradox
2025 · The Simulator
Sneaks
2025 · O.G. (voice)
Portal to Hell
2025 · Mr. Bobshank
Mufasa: The Lion King
2024 · Masego (voice)
Mr. Nelson on the North Side
2024 · Self
Betty & Blue
2024 · Willie 'Blue' Watson
The Prank
2024 · Principal Henderson
American Fiction
2023 · Willy the Wonker
Heist 88
2023 · Buddha Ray
From the Shadows
2023 · Dr. Leonard Bertram
A Snowy Day in Oakland
2023 · Mr. Monroe
Parallel Worlds: A Psychedelic Love Story
2023 · Jerry
Shut Up and Ride
2022 · Narrator (voice)
A Miracle Before Christmas
2022 · David
Entergalactic
2022 · Mr. Rager (voice)
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
2022 · Ink Williams
DC League of Super-Pets
2022 · Dog-El (voice)
Nope
2022 · Otis Haywood Sr.
Unplugging
2022 · Gil
The Wonderful Spring of Mickey Mouse
2022 · Narrator (voice)
In Search of Tomorrow
2022 · Self - Interviewee
Catwoman: Hunted
2022 · Tobias Whale / Morax (voice)
African Redemption: The Life and Legacy of Marcus Garvey
2022 · Narrator
Pups Alone
2021 · The Wise Bartender
Black as Night
2021 · Babineaux
The Gateway
2021 · Terry
The Seventh Day
2021 · Father Louis
Insight
2021 · Captain Duke
Horizon Line
2020 · Freddy Wyman
Most Guys Are Losers
2020 · Al
Good
2020 · Gregory Devereaux
In Search of Darkness: Part II
2020 · Self
Wild Daze
2020 · Narrator
The 420 Movie
2020 · Chief Ironweed
Cuba's Cancer Hope
2020 · Narrator (voice)
Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story
2020 · Self
Rise of the Mammals
2019 · Self - Narrator
21 Bridges
2019 · Deputy Chief Spencer
The Wedding Year
2019 · Preston
You Might Be the Killer
2019 · Sheriff James
In Search of Darkness
2019 · Self
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
2019 · Self
Love Jacked
2018 · Ed
Fuck You All: The Uwe Boll Story
2018 · Self
Brothers in Arms
2018 · Self
Night School
2018 · Gerald
American Dresser
2018 · Charlie
Sharon 1.2.3.
2018 · Tyrone
Tales from the Hood 2
2018 · Portifoy Simms
Ray Meets Helen
2018 · Harve
The '91 Falcons
The '91 Falcons
2017 · Narrator (voice)
Who Goes There? In Search of The Thing
2017 · Self
Savage Dog
2017 · Valentine
Not a War Story
2017
Service to Man
2016 · Dean Holmes
The Men of Outpost 31
2016 · Self
School of Rickey
2016 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Range 15
2016 · Colonel Holloway
The Nice Guys
2016 · Older Guy
Blue: The American Dream
2016 · Terry Venable
Nina
2016 · Clifton's Father
The North Star
2016 · Frederick Douglass
Dirty Lies
2016 · Doc
The Last Punch
The Last Punch
2016 · Don King
Dutch Book
2015 · Joe Johnson
If I Tell You I Have to Kill You
2015 · Detective Harris
Boiling Pot
2015 · Agent Long
Kids vs Monsters
2015 · Barry
Union Furnace
2015 · Pin Stripe
Secrets of the Magic City
2015 · Mr. Daniels
Field of Lost Shoes
2015 · Old Judge
Remaking the Legend: Halo 2 Anniversary
2014
Creature Feature: 60 Years of the Gill-Man
2014 · Narrator
H4
2014 · Worcester
Frog Kingdom
2013 · Frog King (voice)
Free Birds
2013 · Chief Broadbeak (Voice)
Sons of Liberty
2013 · Nathan Reynolds
Assault on Wall Street
2013 · Freddy
Black Asylum
2013 · Agent Davis
Don't Pass Me By
2013 · David Knox
Christmas in Compton
2012 · Big Earl
Cloud Atlas
2012 · Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient
Double or Nothing
Double or Nothing
2012 · Homeless Dude
Smiley
2012 · Diamond
The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America
2012 · Charles Buchanan (voice)
Highway
2012 · Mustafa
The Last Fall
2012 · Sydney Bishop
The Undershepherd
2012 · Brother Wilks
AniMen: The Galactic Battle
2012 · Sergeant Brass
The Greening of Whitney Brown
2011 · Clerk
Hopelessly in June
2011 · Dalbert Myers
The Inheritance
2011 · Uncle Melvin
Samuel Bleak
2011 · Ned Coffman
No Saints for Sinners
2011 · Victor
Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming
2010 · Terry
Chain Letter
2010 · Det. Jim Crenshaw
Baseball: The Tenth Inning
2010 · Narrator
Lottery Ticket
2010 · Sweet Tee
New York Street Games
2010 · Self
Chasing 3000
2010 · Officer L.
Something Like A Business
2010 · Sebastian
Meet Monica Velour
2010 · Claude
Spork
2010 · Coach Jenkins
Death at a Funeral
2010 · Reverend Davis
Africa's Lost Eden
2010 · Narrator (voice)
The Princess and the Frog
2009 · Dr. Facilier (voice)
Beautiful Loser
2009 · Morgan - Adult
Gamer
2009 · Agent Keith
All About Steve
2009 · Corbitt
Coraline: Creepy Coraline
2009 · The Cat (voice) (archive footage)
The Butcher
2009 · Larry Cobb
Pastor Brown
2009 · Pastor Brown
Don McKay
2009 · Otis Kent
Blue
2009 · Terry Venable
Charlie Valentine
2009 · Sal
Against the Dark
2009 · Lt. Waters
Coraline
2009 · The Cat (voice)
Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia
2009 · Commander Scott Boytano
S.I.S.
2008 · Joseph Armstrong
The Fifth Commandment
2008 · Max 'Coolbreeze' Templeton
No Bad Days
2008 · Terrence
The Sensei
2008 · Minister
My Mom's New Boyfriend
2008 · FBI Chief Conrad
Superhero Movie
2008 · The Chief of Police
Justice League: The New Frontier
2008 · The Centre (voice)
First Sunday
2008 · Judge B. Bennet Galloway
The Candlelight Murders
2008 · Pastor Bob
The Last Sentinel
2007 · Colonel Norton
Delta Farce
2007 · Sgt. Kilgore
The Color Purple: The Color of Success
2007 · Self - Narrator (voice)
If I Had Known I Was a Genius
2007 · Dad
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
2006 · MCPO Scott Boytano
Forbidden Fruits
2006 · Rev. Walters
ATL
2006 · John Garnett
The Oh in Ohio
2006 · Coach Popovitch
Working with a Master: John Carpenter
2006 · Self
Dirty
2005 · Captain Spain
Crusades: Crescent & the Cross
2005 · Self - Narrator
The Proud Family Movie
2005 · Bebe Clone (voice)
Transporter 2
2005 · Stappleton
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2005 · Father
Crash
2005 · Lt. Dixon
Last Stand of the Great Bear
2004 · Narrator (voice)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004 · Narrator (voice)
Beef II
2004 · Narrator (voice)
The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury
2004 · Abu 'Imam' al-Walid (voice)
The Chronicles of Riddick
2004 · Abu 'Imam' al-Walid
Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man
2004 · Narrator (voice)
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
2004 · CIA Director
Nubia: The Forgotten Kingdom
2003 · Narrator (voice)
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
2003 · Narrator (voice)
Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked
2003 · Narrator (voice)
Hollywood Homicide
2003 · Leon
Head of State
2003 · Bernard Cooper
Agent Cody Banks
2003 · CIA Director
Inside Mecca
2003 · Narrator (voice)
The Shakespeare Sessions
The Shakespeare Sessions
2003
29 Palms
2002 · The Sheriff
Stalking Leopards
2002 · Narrator (voice)
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
2002 · Frank (They Live) (archive footage)
Barbershop
2002 · Lester Wallace
Mark Twain
2002 · Narrator (voice)
Pretty When You Cry
2001 · Detective Charles Desett
Novocaine
2001 · Detective Lunt
Egypt's Golden Empire
2001 · Narrator
Home Invaders
2001 · Matador
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
2001 · Council Member (voice)
Semper Fi
2001 · Gunnery Sgt. Brinkloff
Boxing: In and Out of the Ring
2001 · Narrator (voice)
Requiem for a Dream
2000 · Big Tim
The Replacements
2000 · Lindell
Where the Heart Is
2000 · Moses Whitecotten
Pitch Black
2000 · Abu 'Imam' al-Walid
National Geographic: The Photographers
2000 · Narrator
Innocents
2000 · Detective Davis
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hollywood Hero
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hollywood Hero
1999 · Narrator
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues
1999 · King Oliver
ATF
1999 · FBI Director Richard Long
The Grizzlies of Siberia
1999 · Narrator (voice)
Todd McFarlane's Spawn: Season 2
1998 · Spawn
There's Something About Mary
1998 · Charlie Jensen
Armageddon
1998 · General Kimsey
The Tiger Woods Story
1998 · Earl Woods
Never Met Picasso
1997 · Larry
Don King: Only in America
1997 · Herbert Muhammad
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
1997 · Algric Bartles
Loose Women
1997 · Stylist #1
Executive Target
1997 · Lamar
Hercules
1997 · Apollo the Sun God (voice)
Volcano
1997 · Lt. Ed Fox
Flipping
1997 · Leo Richards, Gang Leader
Vanishing Point
1997 · Warren Taft
Johns
1996 · Homeless John
Larger Than Life
1996 · Hurst
The Grave
1996 · The Priest
Eye for an Eye
1996 · Martin
Dead Presidents
1995 · Kirby
Clockers
1995 · André the Giant
Blue in the Face
1995 · Jackie Robinson
Beauty and the Beasts: A Leopard's Story
1995 · Narrator (voice)
Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken
1995 · Goliath (voice)
The Quick and the Dead
1995 · Sergeant Cantrell
The Puppet Masters
1994 · Alex Holland
Notes in a Minor Key
1994 · Kansas
Jewels of the Caribbean Sea
1994 · Narrator (voice)
Reality Bites
1994 · Roger
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
1993 · Big Willie
There Are No Children Here
1993 · John Paul Rivers
Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music
1993 · Self - Host
The Last Outlaw
1993 · Lovecraft
Lions Of Darkness
1993 · Narrator (voice)
Nails
1992 · Noah Owens
Article 99
1992 · Luther Jermoe
Final Analysis
1992 · Detective Huggins
Hallelujah Anyhow
1991 · Will
Marked for Death
1990 · Max
Men at Work
1990 · Louis Fedders
Murder in Black and White
1990 · Martin
Always
1989 · Powerhouse
Road House
1989 · Ernie Bass
Christmas in Tattertown
1988 · Saxophone (voice)
Ladykillers
1988 · Abe
They Live
1988 · Frank Armitage
Bird
1988 · Buster Franklin
Stars & Bars
1988 · Eugene Teagarden
Off Limits
1988 · Maurice
Braddock: Missing in Action III
1988 · Embassy Gate Captain
The Making of 'They Live'
1988 · Self
Hot Pursuit
1987 · Alphonso
Platoon
1986 · King
The Whoopee Boys
1986 · Washington Square Peddler
The Thing
1982 · Childs
The Pirates of Penzance
1980 · Pirates and Police
Coriolanus
1979 · Aedile / Roman Citizen / Volscian Citizen
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